Reading this article gave me a fucking headache. If I have to hear someone say the word disruptive, or "win-win" one more time my head will explode. Please, journalists, when asking the technical community to write software for you, please try to refrain from using baby talk. The reason the systems you propose don't exist yet isn't because no one has thought of them, but because no one has time to build them.

Having said that, I'm recommending this article because these are fairly reasonable ideas. Yes your RSS aggregator should be signing up to receive a message anytime something new pops up, instead of going around to 1000 machines and asking every few minutes. As for using bit-torrent as an RSS feed distribution mechanism, yes, but no. Bit-torrent shouldn't know anything about RSS or vice-versa. My take is that bit-torrent should be pushed down below the applications, and it ought to cache any web page you hit if the owner marks it as cachable. Any url you try to pull should get pulled from bit-torrent first, if available.

This would take an apache plugin and something that looks like a driver to windows which sits between the ethernet and tcpip stacks MITMing http connections...

I thought about this two years ago. Why doesn't it exist? Cause no one pays people to write software like that.

Yahoo! News - BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution